"Hope for the Hurting" program to highlight center banquets

2013 event slated in Brush, Yuma and Holyoke

By Katie Collins Brush News-Tribune Staff Writer

Posted:
12/18/2012 04:00:00 PM MST

Shelly Donahue, a nationally known speaker, WAIT trainer and love and relationship educator will serve as a speaker for the upcoming Caring Resource Pregnancy Center Fundraising Banquets in Brush, Yuma and Holyoke in January. (Courtesy photo)

The Caring Pregnancy Resource Center of Northeast Colorado provides a variety of family, relationship and educational services to people in need through 6 1/2 counties of northeastern Colorado and with a service area of 9,000 square miles their mission to help children, parents and families alike has certainly gained ground. To usher in a new year, the center has been gearing up to host their series of annual banquets in January of 2013 where a “Hope for the Hurting” presentation from renown speaker Shelly Donahue will be presented along with dinner. Donahue serves as the co-creator of WAIT (Why Am I Tempted) training, an abstinence and relationship public school curriculum.As a national WAIT trainer, Donahue serves as a love and relationship educator and brings with her a wide array of experience including as a employee for the Weld County Health Department in Greeley for over five years where she coordinated WAIT training into 13 high schools and 16 middle schools. As a result of her WAIT program efforts, teen fertility has seen a 25-percent decrease since 2000. Donahue presents over 50 WAIT Training teacher trainings, over 100 middle and high school WAIT training assemblies in 47 states throughout the nation every year, and in January of 2013 she will be honored as the speaker for the Caring Resource Pregnancy Center banquets.

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“We are so pleased to have her speak this year,” said Caring Pregnancy Resource Center Director Jan Loesch of Donahue, “and we are looking forward to the knowledge and expertise she will bring in regards to family, children and relationships.”For the Center, the annual banquets provides their main means of raising funding for the year but also serves as a way to inform communities and individuals about the variety of services provided throughout northeastern Colorado. Banquets on the agenda for 2013 will be held Saturday, January 26 at the Phillips County Event Center in Holyoke, with the presentation scheduled to begin at 5:30 and dinner set for 6 p.m., at the First Church of the Nazarene in Yuma on Sunday, January 27 with the 4:30 program to be followed by a 5 p.m. dinner and in Brush at the Morgan County Event Center on Monday, January 28 with the 5:30 program to be followed by a 6 p.m. dinner. Those interested in sponsoring a table of eight for the event can contact Jan Loesch at (970) 842-4324 before January 18.Table sponsorships must be pre-purchased before the January 18 deadline, along with tickets.Tickets are $25 per individual and will not be made available at the door. You can find out more about the Caring Resource Pregnancy Center and the upcoming fundraisers online at www.neco-cpc.org.

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